As a fan of the first movie who hasn't played the games, the movie really didn't make much sense. Especially the part about having pyramid head fight Claudia. And claudia turning into the random thing that killed douglas. weren't people in slient hill supposedly unable to move outside the village? Or was the thing killing douglas a different being? Why the hell did heather watch random nightmare things outside the city anyways? Why does Jon snow, wait, Vincent, apparently fall in love with heather in a day? (after a longer time stalking her, I guess). So much confusing stuff, so much! xD.

Also, sean bean didn't die. When he was supposed to. Even I know about harry dying in those games xD

Silent Hill is always at least a little confusing. There aren't supposed to be monsters outside of Silent Hill but there are because in the third one, Heather is in the mall in the beginning and has to deal with the otherworld. In the movie, that's basically when she's seeing stuff, so that part was accurate. Not sure about Claudia. And because that's how it works in games and movies based on games. People fall in love way too quickly, lol.

Is Harry Mason actually in it this time around? I was pissed that they didn't use him the first time, because he was too "motherly." Fathers can be maternal too! It's called being paternal, and that's what made him a unique character not just in video games, but anything really. Not every story has to have a man be some masculine loner if he's in the protagonist role, and really that sucks that people would think "change him into a woman cause he shows concern for his own missing child."

Honestly, I thought that's what made him a great character to begin with. Changing him to a woman just stereotypes it. I'm also a little worried how they handled "Heather" and if they had the balls to do a

The Harry Mason from SH3 is not in it. It's the same guy from the first movie, but they change their names and move around a lot, so by the time the movie starts, they're calling themselves Harry and Heather Mason.

And yes, that is in the movie. I don't know how they would have gotten around that considering that's basically what the entire story revolves around. One of the coolest parts of the movie is the confrontation between the two of them.

I feel a bit cheated hearing that (about Harry), but it somehow makes it lot better. I might have to check out Retribution. It's just that American audiences are often treated like idiots by Hollywood when it comes to more complicated (not really that complicated to people who pay attention) stories that involve things you don't find in American movies or films in general, so I was a little afraid they would cheapen it up a bit. Books are often so much better because they don't dumb it down so to speak. Characters and plots usually play out more realistically, and adhering to sensitivities are thrown out the door.

Like in Call Me Joe, which featured a paraplegic transferring his mind into an artificial alien body, and started becoming native to the planet. Sound familiar? Yep, James Cameron ripped that off too. Though, to be fair that's in a movie now. Or when religious concepts are thrown in (like having multiple souls, and not just one), and so much more fun and "complicated" things that you can only find in science fiction and science fantasy or ancient relgion.

I didn't go very in depth, but I'm about to fall asleep, so I'm sure I'll notice any errors or more crap I could have added when I wake up tomorrow, but yeah, I think I might give it a whirl, just because Harry is in it. Though, I like the fact that they used "Heather" as a

Like in Call Me Joe, which featured a paraplegic transferring his mind into an artificial alien body, and started becoming native to the planet.

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There was once a movie where a guys brain was transferred into a monkey. It was basically done because it was cheaper as it allowed them to just use national geographics archive footage for about thirty minutes.

in contrast watch Falling Skies. That show turned out terrible. Judging from the original outlook most people would have put their money on it being the better show. Some times things just don't work right.

Yeah,I watched that but bailed on it a while back. Thought it was going to be better than it was.

Cute pics,Phyllis. Wow, both your cats look like both of mine.
A baby Tigger and baby Rina.

Watched a few movies. Finally saw Looper. Boy,what a disappointment that was. Best things I can say about it is, JGL did an excellent impression of Bruce Willis. The facial expressions, squinting. Really did a good job.
The movie started off ok....but then the 2nd half, with all that crap and screamin kid foe? Meh.
JGL and Bruce Willis are 2 very good actors and together should've been great... but they were wasted with that script.

I avoided Frankenweenie for a while because the subject matter seemed sad and didn't feel like watching something like that. My ex is in visiting and she wanted to watch it so we rented it. You were right,Gerald. That was a good movie. I enjoyed it.Prob near the top of fave movies by Burton . Has a lot of heart in it.
Just wish all his chars didn't look like zombies

Watched a few movies. Finally saw Looper. Boy,what a disappointment that was. Best things I can say about it is, JGL did an excellent impression of Bruce Willis. The facial expressions, squinting. Really did a good job.
The movie started off ok....but then the 2nd half, with all that crap and screamin kid foe? Meh.
JGL and Bruce Willis are 2 very good actors and together should've been great... but they were wasted with that script.

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You want a disapointing Bruce Willis movie go watch Cold Light of Day. He's in it for all of five minutes but his face and name are on the poster.

As for Looper I just hate time travel movies that toy with paradoxes. Back when I was a kid watching Time Cop it was cool but with everything I've read on time travel theory I just can't stand it anymore.

A lot of reviewers said the ending of Frankenweenie felt false and completely forced but I would disagree I think it too abrupt and that if the movie had been a bit longer and allowed the ending a bit more to develop then there would have been fewer complaints. As a side note I'm watching the Black Scorpion which is full of Willis O'Brien stop motion goodness and is the only place you can see the land crap and giant worm from King Kong's lost spider pit sequence in action.

You want a disapointing Bruce Willis movie go watch Cold Light of Day. He's in it for all of five minutes but his face and name are on the poster.

Never saw that,Mac...but yeah,I hate when movies do that.
They'll put top billing and show them on the movie poster or trailer and if you blink, you miss them in the movie. That's not starring in a movie,that's called a cameo.

I didn't have a prob with the ending,Gerald. Some people will just complain no matter what,if the movie has any sort of happy ending. Could it have been developed more? Sure, but honestly who cares? It's a movie for ALL ages. I enjoyed it and I'm pretty picky. The animation in it was great too. I applaud Tim Burton for continuing to use and support the SM style of animation.I hope we see lots more to come.

Personally I feel it's just more proof of how nihilistic our culture is becoming. Eventually someone will make a version of Snow White where the Prince kills all the dwarves and himself in despair when he sees her in her glass tomb, or a version of Peter Pan where the Crocodile eats everyone because nothing will be allowed to be happy or have a happy ending.

I thought Looper was a snore fest from the very beginning. There wasn't enough focus on anything, and was very mobster, which I'm generally not too fond of those kind of films to begin with. I thought the ending was stupid, and did not guarantee a "good" outcome. I also thought it was unintentionally hilarious, and couldn't help but burst out laughing. I also wasn't too fond of the message...if all is going to shit,

At least that's what I got out of it, but whatever. It was a huge disappointment, and had been one of the big "original" movies I was looking forward to all year. Otherwise, there were plenty of other decent to great films I enjoyed in 2012, topping it all off with Django Unchained, which was probably my favorite live action film of the year after TDK, with Prometheus in the middle somewhere.

The only film I'm really looking forward to this year is Evil Dead. All of my Sci Fi has been overrun with Tom Cruise, and I am not a fan of his, so I'll be passing all of his. After that, I think only the Avengers phase two movies have my interest, honestly.

Personally I feel it's just more proof of how nihilistic our culture is becoming. Eventually someone will make a version of Snow White where the Prince kills all the dwarves and himself in despair when he sees her in her glass tomb, or a version of Peter Pan where the Crocodile eats everyone because nothing will be allowed to be happy or have a happy ending.

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The original Frankenweenie didn't have much of a happy ending either in comparison, really. It was a parody of Frankenstien. I didn't think it was that sad either, but oh well.

Personally I feel it's just more proof of how nihilistic our culture is becoming. Eventually someone will make a version of Snow White where the Prince kills all the dwarves and himself in despair when he sees her in her glass tomb, or a version of Peter Pan where the Crocodile eats everyone because nothing will be allowed to be happy or have a happy ending.

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Definitely agree with that.You definitely hit the nihilistic nail with that comment. Sad but true.
It used to be people wanted bad chars to die in shows/movies. Now people want even good chars to die.
It's weird and asinine imo. But....as you say.....

The only film I'm really looking forward to this year is Evil Dead. All of my Sci Fi has been overrun with Tom Cruise, and I am not a fan of his, so I'll be passing all of his. After that, I think only the Avengers phase two movies have my interest, honestly.

Well, we definitely differ with the top movies. I did like TDK but Prometheus is on my worst list and I refuse to watch Django since I hate QT movies and doubt I'd change my mind for that one.

While I also agree with your Tom Cruise attitude, the one coming out does look like a pretty good movie.
I'll prob give that one a shot,especially with Mister Freeman in it. That could be the movie that makes Tom not suck again but he'd be lucky if that were so....more the movie than him.

Well, we definitely differ with the top movies. I did like TDK but Prometheus is on my worst list and I refuse to watch Django since I hate QT movie.

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I thought Prometheus was pretty good for the idea alone. I still hate the fact that people missed out that the idiots on board were indeed "cannon fodder" and were not really scientists save for the geologists with the rest being mercenaries, having shady pasts and only wanting to get paid, or simply the crew of the ship, while the

other scientists were observing and under orders from Weyland the entire time

. I'm still confused why people didn't get that. Not to mention the whole thing with people thinking it's the same planet in Alien, when it is wasn't.

Yeah, some of the acting was stupid, but Fassbender was able to carry most of it as David, and it was pretty much his show to steal.

As for Django, it's one of the most approachable movies QT has ever done. It's still got very hyper violent moments and extensive attention to detail, but it didn't even feel like a QT movie to be honest. It helps that the cast seemed to be playing off of each other very well in this one.

Wasn't there a time where the IGN boards were completely down? It was during the layout change, right? So that must've been like...2011, I think...

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I think I remember that. Anyway, there was a period of time around there where ign was constantly down. The site was essentially unusable and I think it cost ign a lot of users. I could be wrong about that, of course, but I felt at the time like a lot of people were sprinting to the doors because of the server problems. Hell, the current events and PC boards basically picked up and moved to a whole new site.

Grandpa's funeral was today. I was a pallbearer so I actually had to help carry the casket to the hearse and then from the hearse to the grave. I almost lost it as they were closing the casket up and my grandmother took his navy ring off and gave it to me. I can't believe she did that.

People were expecting to see the SJ in the chair,so that's why they thought it was the same planet. A prequel should have some ties....some resemblance of the movie it's connected to.I didn't see any.
I was just expecting a completely diff type of movie. I mean,I was disappointed by it to begin with. Then when I saw Ridley's original script for it...that the 'Space Jockeys' were just a colonizing alien race that was exploring/mining and accidentally come across the Xenos and set things in motion when tinkering around....was a much better idea. A lot better than the god-like nonsense/origin of mankind crap.
I just couldn't get into it.

As for Django, it's one of the most approachable movies QT has ever done. It's still got very hyper violent moments and extensive attention to detail, but it didn't even feel like a QT movie to be honest. It helps that the cast seemed to be playing off of each other very well in this one.

ok,I don't really like his style of filmmaking...but I'll check it out eventually when it comes on cable....since you put it that way,Neko.

Cherish that ring,Mac.That's quite an honor she bestowed upon you.
Sorry for your loss.

Technically speaking, the Space Jockeys were left ambiguous enough for that still to be the case, if even in just some small form. I'm going to guess that the movie everyone expected to see will be more than likely the second film. I'm actually curious to see what's become of the engineers, or if they're even around anymore, and what their reaction to Shaw might be or if she'll just find an insane planet run by Apes...jk on that last part.

Honestly, I think it would have worked better as a one shot, and having more teases and allusions to Alien too, since that is one of my favorite films, but I can respect them as entirely different two movies that happened to have some connections, just like Blade Runner.

People were expecting to see the SJ in the chair,so that's why they thought it was the same planet. A prequel should have some ties....some resemblance of the movie it's connected to.I didn't see any.
I was just expecting a completely diff type of movie. I mean,I was disappointed by it to begin with. Then when I saw Ridley's original script for it...that the 'Space Jockeys' were just a colonizing alien race that was exploring/mining and accidentally come across the Xenos and set things in motion when tinkering around....was a much better idea. A lot better than the god-like nonsense/origin of mankind crap.
I just couldn't get into it.

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I prefer the story that the aliens were made by the space jockeys but I don't like the new idea that people were engineered too.

Cherish that ring,Mac.That's quite an honor she bestowed upon you.
Sorry for your loss.

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It's also kind of a curse. I try my best to stay out of family drama on my mom's side (it was my mom's dad that passed) but my cousins told me how they knew I was always their favorite. I hate that. Our grandparents shouldn't have favorites. I don't want to be despised for being the favorite. Sadly I know it's true but I'd prefer to act like it wasn't so I can be equal with all my cousins on that side. I don't want the jealousy or hate that comes with favoritism.

Technically speaking, the Space Jockeys were left ambiguous enough for that still to be the case, if even in just some small form. I'm going to guess that the movie everyone expected to see will be more than likely the second film. I'm actually curious to see what's become of the engineers, or if they're even around anymore, and what their reaction to Shaw might be or if she'll just find an insane planet run by Apes...jk on that last part.

Honestly, I think it would have worked better as a one shot, and having more teases and allusions to Alien too, since that is one of my favorite films, but I can respect them as entirely different two movies that happened to have some connections, just like Blade Runner.

Twilight-The last crap part 2.
Well, the fight scene was kinda cool. Best thing I can say about it.Did like the theme song too.

I try and respect someone's story and what applies to their rules but I still think having a newbie Vamp be stronger than people who have been a werewolf/vampire for a long time, is asinine. Makes no damn sense. Then again, having sparkly vamps with no fangs didn't make much sense either.
Bella sucks. and

As much as I like Dakota Fanning,hated her char. All I kept saying through the movie is how much I wanna see that coont die. Didn't happen. Wasn't happy.

GI Joe-Didn't watch it for the longest time because it looked like a stupid comic book movie. But seeing the Rock and Bruce Willis in the new one coming out,I figured I should watch the first one. .....Yep, stupid comic book movie I thought it was gonna be. Hope the 2nd one is a lot better than that.

American Reunion- Liked it. Wasn't perfect but made me laugh. Still love those chars.
Feel like I got to see some old friends. Wish they would make more. American Pie came out and it was great. No one has topped it since.

Regarding Prometheus, in the original script (before Lindeloff rewrote it and removed most of the Alien material) the planet actually WAS LV-426 and the crashed ship in Alien was the same one you see in Prometheus.

I'm still leaning towards that planet being LV-426 and sometime after the movie it gets re-designated, and the black ooze that was leaking out was responsible for the planets deterioration.

Regarding Prometheus, in the original script (before Lindeloff rewrote it and removed most of the Alien material) the planet actually WAS LV-426 and the crashed ship in Alien was the same one you see in Prometheus.

I'm still leaning towards that planet being LV-426 and sometime after the movie it gets re-designated, and the black ooze that was leaking out was responsible for the planets deterioration.

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yeah I watched a video with the writers "bragging" about how they were able to "put their stamp" on the alien franchise and it's like they don't even get that they're what ruined it. Everything they think is a positive is what pissed the fans off. They put too much of their own ego into the film instead of thinking of the good of the franchise.

TBH I loved Prometheus because it was its own film AND an Alien prequel, without relying too heavily on nostalgia for the Alien movies to work. I'm more interested in the Space Jockeys/Engineers than seeing people 50-100 years before the other movies dealing with Xenomorphs. I hope the second movie continues to flesh out the Engineers and give us more backstory and explanations on what that black ooze was and why they want to get rid of humanity while also continuing on with how the Xenomorphs came to be.

TBH I loved Prometheus because it was its own film AND an Alien prequel, without relying too heavily on nostalgia for the Alien movies to work. I'm more interested in the Space Jockeys/Engineers than seeing people 50-100 years before the other movies dealing with Xenomorphs. I hope the second movie continues to flesh out the Engineers and give us more backstory and explanations on what that black ooze was and why they want to get rid of humanity while also continuing on with how the Xenomorphs came to be.

Though I will say that I think fans would have liked the original script that Spathis wrote, as opposed to the reworked one that Lindeloff did. I know there are a lot of Lost fans here, but I think the guy is way overrated. He thinks not providing answers is good writing, when most of the time it just comes off as lazy.

In a way, I myself consider this a truer sequel to Alien than Aliens was. I always wanted to know what that big alien guy was, and now...we sort of know what he's about. Aliens, and the rest of them just kept using the Xeno and never delved deeper into things that were planted in the original other than Ripley and the monster, and nothing else.

Heck, at least we know more about Ash's origins, and even more about the Weyland company. That's some good at least.

See, I think the problem is everyone expected their own kind of movie when going to see Prometheus, and ended up disappointed because they thought it was going to be a full on Alien film, when it wasn't. It was about the Space Jockeys, just like SR said it was going to be.

Regarding Prometheus, in the original script (before Lindeloff rewrote it and removed most of the Alien material) the planet actually WAS LV-426 and the crashed ship in Alien was the same one you see in Prometheus.

I'm still leaning towards that planet being LV-426 and sometime after the movie it gets re-designated, and the black ooze that was leaking out was responsible for the planets deterioration.

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yeah I watched a video with the writers "bragging" about how they were able to "put their stamp" on the alien franchise and it's like they don't even get that they're what ruined it. Everything they think is a positive is what pissed the fans off. They put too much of their own ego into the film instead of thinking of the good of the franchise.

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Exactly. I can't stand idiots who do that. I don't give a shit about your stupid stamp. Just make a good damn movie that makes sense about what the fans want to see.

James Cameron added a Queen and herd, and thus to the mythology in Aliens. What makes it ok for him to change things around but not the creator himself?

Because at least what he did was cool and made some sense. All Prometheus was, was nonsense.
Ridley should have stuck to his original script. I think the negativity towards Prometheus is well deserved. It has the same value as the AvP movies. None.
Not hating on you for liking it,Neko...so please don't roar. Just differ in the opinion of it.

Microsoft refunded me 1400 MSP because a movie I bought was no longer available through Xbox Video to stream or download. Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure I paid less than the value of 1400 MSP for the movie, I think I paid at maximum 1200 MSP.

Microsoft refunded me 1400 MSP because a movie I bought was no longer available through Xbox Video to stream or download. Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure I paid less than the value of 1400 MSP for the movie, I think I paid at maximum 1200 MSP.

Mac you can't help it how other people perceive you - your cousins / grandparents included. It seems like they wanted you to have that ring and frankly your jealous relatives need to get over it. Maybe you had a better relationship with him than they did and that's partly on them.

Joe, I don't think I realized Rina was a black cat - we need to do a pets picture swap at some point.

Another weekend over -nice weather but I was mostly stuck inside, not feeling well plus doing a lot of spring cleaning as we're getting some new furniture next week in the family room. Finally decluttering the final few boxes we didn't unpack due to lack of ideas where to store it - for now they are going in bins and will be relegated to the attic.

The atmosphere of the neighborhood was great, as was seeing Morgan again and finding out what happened to him and Duane.

"We're eating his food now?" "Mat said 'welcome'."

Lol. I know a lot of people have had issues with Michonne not talking much and I understand that, but I've liked her since she first appeared and I hope other people start warming up to her now that she's talking/interacting more. She's awesome. Her being a ninja to get that picture, while impossible, was great, as was her grabbing that cat thing because it was "gorgeous". Lmao. I also liked her mentioning that she used to talk to her dead boyfriend.

Carl's getting better as well.

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Actually, I suggest anyone check out the comics. Most of the problems with the show are gone, but that line with Michonne seems to be bit of wasted potential/nod towards the comics because

that's a survivor technique some more of the badass characters develop in order to keep themselves from worrying too much about their dead loved ones or soon to be dead ones. Kinda hard to explain unless you read it yourself, but it's a pretty cool concept for a zombie world

Anyway, I just caught both last weeks, and tonight's TWD back to back, and I must say for a filler episode, it was pretty good, and felt much more like the comic book in tone than any episode has before it, considering the chat between Rick and

Heat moment here, which was ok and all, but other than that it made The Governor a bit too predictable IMHO. The best parts were the chat between the Governor's men and Rick's group, which sets up nicely for and hopefully the end of the Prison arch...that is if they decide to go with the comics resolution to that particular situation.

Overall it was an OK episode, but I much prefer the previous episode just because it had the whole in your face with the decisions and consequences you have to live with approach.

The other episode was indeed better but I still liked this one. It had some good dialogue and character interactions, despite being really slow. Also, I haven't read the comics themselves but I have read summaries so I know a lot of the stuff that goes down there and the differences between the show and the comics.

Oh, I enjoyed it too, and it's nice to see David Morrissey do a villain's role, because I generally catch him in only doing good guy roles, but he's got this cool character tick developed (the laugh, smile, and back to frown), and I really just like seeing his acting shine in here.

Other than that, I will certainly have to wait until the season is over with in order to properly judge it, just like Season Two. I'm really itching to see the conclusion, and how it will all fall into place. I do like that it's a lot different from the comics though (for the most part, save for a few character changes mostly related towards Andrea) because I can't exactly say "Oh this is what's gonna happen" and be spoiled.

I like Shane a lot better in the TV series, and what they were able to do with him. I love Norman Reedus and his addition of Daryl, and Merle is even starting to grow on me now that he's actually in the series. So there has been some fun twists and additions on top of the more cringe worthy bits.